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The Benefits of Twitter for Scientists
Despite frequent claims to the contrary, social media tools such as Twitter can be incredibly valuable for scholars.
Gender Differences in Recognition for Group Work
Evidence that women and men are judged differently when they co-author papers.
ELPUB 2017
The 21st International Conference on Electronic Publishing, 6 - 8 June, 2017, Limassol, Cyprus.
10 Things to Know About How to Influence Policy with Research
Research can produce good evidence to inform local, national and international policy that, in turn, has the potential to transform lives for the better. But influencing policy is neither easy nor automatic – you need to want to do it. To be successful, you need to be open to different ways of working. Here are 10 things you need to know.
The Proposed Publishers Right Is an Attack on the Public Domain
Traditionally, at the beginning of the new year we celebrated what is known as Public Domain Day: on the first of January of any given year the works of authors who have been dead for more than 70 years enter the public domain. As this is a decisive year for copyright reform in the European Union, it seems much more important to highlight the dangers for the public domain that we are facing in the context of the copyright reform process.
Open Science and Free Culture
A committment by a young researcher to practice open and good science, and more generally to free culture.
To Spark Medical Innovation, Canada Should Embrace Open Science
The Canadian government is again in the midst of its annual consultations on innovation. It seems our efforts to find the magic key to an “innovative economy” just never go away. By Aled Edwards, CEO of the Structural Genomics Consortium and professor at the University of Toronto.
Does Peer Review Help Weed Out Bad Science?
Does Peer Review Help Weed Out Bad Science?
Peer-review had a role to play when journals were all in print and competing for subscription real estate, but today it may be little more than a vestige of the print era.
Academia in 3 Nations Boycotts Elsevier for High Journal Prices
Scientists in Taiwan, Germany, and Peru will lose access to more than 12,000 scientific journals after institutions boycott the publishing giant for high prices and minimal open-access options.
Top 10 Reasons Why Blog Posts Are Better Than Scientific Papers
Envisioning the scientific paper of the future.
What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known?
Answers of the annual Edge.org question posed to leading thinkers and scientists.
ScienceDisrupt Picks From 2016
We wanted to share with you some of the awesome science innovations and disruptors from the last year. This is our list.
Why Scientists Must Learn to Communicate With the Public
Evading science communication simply because it is difficult, time-consuming or not important enough reflects more on how much scientists value their own work and its place in posterity.
Simple and Declarative Titles Are More Likely To Be in the Altmetric Top 100
What Happens to Rejected Papers?
Neuroskeptic« No Need To Worry About False Positives in fMRI?What Happens to Rejected Papers?By Neuroskeptic | January 3, 2017 2:43 pm32The pain of rejection is one that every scientist has felt: but what happens to papers after they’re declined by a journal?In a new study, researchers Earnshaw et al. traced the fate of almost 1,000 manuscripts which had been submitted to and rejected by ear, nose and throat journal Clinical Otolaryngology between 2011 to 2013.
Musings about the Open Science Prize
As I was thinking about casting my vote for the Open Science Prize, I realized that I would in fact need a rubric for choosing. I was concerned that the public vote would tend towards popularity, familiarity, or bling, rather than the quality of the open science. But what does it mean to be “quality open science?” What should be the most important criteria?
Top 16 Research Tools of 2016
A roundup of the top trending online tools of 2016 that were most appreciated and used by the LabWorm community.
Integrity and Resposibility in Research Practices
A joint guide by the CNRS and the French Conference of University Presidents.
Who Will Be The Next Director of the NIH?
This January will not only mark a new year but a new administration and with that over 4000 new presidential appointees across the federal government. One appointment that has the potential to either hinder or benefit the biomedical research community is that of the director of the National Institutes of Health.
Ushering in a Bold New Era for Open Science
Earlier this year, the Montreal Neurological Institute announced an ambitious commitment to the principles of open science. The Neuro will be eschewing patents for its discoveries and doing all it can to make its research findings widely available. While there have been other large-scale open science initiatives the Neuro is the first major research institute of its kind to make such a wide-ranging commitment to open science.
Moneyball for Professors?
Using analytics to improve hiring decisions has transformed industries from baseball to investment banking. So why are tenure decisions for professors still made the old-fashioned way?, asks Erik Brynjolfsson from MIT.
No Full-Text Access to Elsevier Journals to Be Expected from 1 January 2017
No Full-Text Access to Elsevier Journals to Be Expected from 1 January 2017
More than 60 major German research institutions are to be expected to have no access to the full texts of journals by the publisher Elsevier from 1 January 2017 on, among them Göttingen University with 440 Elsevier journals.
Prominent Funding Organizations Team Up to Launch ORFG
Eight highly-visible organizations today announced the launch of the Open Research Funders Group, a partnership designed to increase access to research outputs. With nearly $5 billion in combined annual grants conferred, these organizations are committed to using their positions to foster more open sharing of research articles and data. This openness, the members believe, will accelerate the pace of discovery, reduce information-sharing gaps, encourage innovation, and promote reproducibility.
Open Research Funders Group
A partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs.
21st Century Cures Act Now Law
Yesterday, President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law.
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